Skanda Purana — Prabhasa Khanda, Shloka 33

Devanagari script

न जानाति पुनः किंचिद्यद्वृत्तं राजमन्दिरे । कृता सा पट्टमहिषी भोजराजेन धीमता

Transliteration

na jānāti punaḥ kiṃcidyadvṛttaṃ rājamandire | kṛtā sā paṭṭamahiṣī bhojarājena dhīmatā

Translation

彼女は王宮で起こったことをもはや何一つ覚えていなかった。賢明なるボージャ王は彼女を正妃（パッタ・マヒーシー）として立てた。

Word by Word

• na: not
• na: Sambandha (Negation/सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: na (अव्यय)
• Form: निषेधार्थक-अव्यय (negative particle)

• jānāti: knows
• jānāti: Kriya (Action/क्रिया)
• Type: Verb
• Root: jñā (धातु)
• Form: लट्-लकार (Present), परस्मैपद, प्रथम-पुरुष (3rd person), एकवचन (singular)

• punaḥ: again
• punaḥ: Kriya-viśeṣaṇa (Adverbial/क्रियाविशेषण)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: punaḥ (अव्यय)
• Form: काल/पुनरावृत्त्यर्थक-अव्यय (adverb: again)

• kiṃcit: anything, something
• kiṃcit: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: kim (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, द्वितीया/प्रथमा (acc./nom. used as object), एकवचन; अनिश्चित-प्रमाणवाचक (indefinite pronoun)

• yat: which/that
• yat: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: yat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया, एकवचन; सम्बन्धबोधक-यत् (relative pronoun)

• vṛttam: what happened, event
• vṛttam: Karma (Object/कर्म)
• Type: Noun
• Root: vṛtta (प्रातिपदिक; √vṛt धातु-निष्पन्न)
• Form: नपुंसकलिङ्ग, प्रथमा/द्वितीया (nom./acc.), एकवचन

• rāja-mandire: in the royal palace
• rāja-mandire: Adhikaraṇa (Location/अधिकरण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: rājan (प्रातिपदिक) + mandira (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: सप्तमी (locative/अधिकरण), एकवचन; नपुंसकलिङ्ग (mandira)

• kṛtā: made, appointed
• kṛtā: Kriya (Predicate participle/क्रिया)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: kṛ (धातु)
• Form: क्त-प्रत्ययान्त कृदन्त (past passive participle), स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा, एकवचन

• sā: she
• sā: Karta (Subject/कर्ता)
• Type: Noun
• Root: tad (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (nominative), एकवचन; सर्वनाम

• paṭṭa-mahiṣī: chief queen
• paṭṭa-mahiṣī: Karta (Subject complement/कर्ता-सम्बन्ध)
• Type: Noun
• Root: paṭṭa (प्रातिपदिक) + mahiṣī (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: स्त्रीलिङ्ग, प्रथमा (nominative), एकवचन

• bhoja-rājena: by King Bhoja
• bhoja-rājena: Karaṇa (Agent-instrument/करण)
• Type: Noun
• Root: bhoja (प्रातिपदिक) + rājan (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (instrumental/करण), एकवचन

• dhīmatā: wise, intelligent
• dhīmatā: Viśeṣaṇa (Qualifier/विशेषण)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: dhīmat (प्रातिपदिक)
• Form: पुंलिङ्ग, तृतीया (instrumental), एकवचन; विशेषण (qualifying bhoja-rājena)

Speaker

Narrator (contextual; within Prabhāsa-khaṇḍa māhātmya narration)

Tirtha Mahatmya

Tirtha: Vastrāpatha-kṣetra (as causal background)

Type: kshetra

Visual Art Cues

Scene: Inside a royal palace, the newly made chief queen sits serene yet detached, as if unaware of past events; King Bhoja, dignified and wise, performs the formal enthronement of the paṭṭa-mahiṣī.

Characters & Entities

• Bhojarāja
• Rājamandira (royal palace)
• Paṭṭamahiṣī

FAQs

What is the primary spiritual lesson of this shloka?

Purāṇic tīrtha narratives often depict a decisive break from past suffering—here symbolized by forgetting prior events and entering a new dharmic station.

Which specific holy site (Tirtha) is glorified here?

The broader Vastrāpatha-kṣetra māhātmya continues to frame the life change as rooted in tīrtha power.

What ritualistic prescription is mentioned?

None; it narrates her elevation to chief-queen status by Bhojarāja.